Underwriting Consultant, Advanced Cases in Vancouver

Are you passionate about life and health insurance underwriting and looking to contribute to an organization whose purpose is to help clients feel confident and secure about their future? As an Underwriting Consultant, Advanced Cases, you will play a key role in the assessment and management of complex underwriting files, providing specialized expertise to underwriting teams, advisors, and business partners while supporting profitable growth and delivering an exceptional client experience. This position offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your underwriting expertise and fully leverage your potential within a caring and trusted organization.

What You’ll Accomplish With Us:

• Assess complex life insurance, critical illness, and disability insurance applications, applying advanced medical, financial, and non-medical underwriting principles.
• Deliver high-quality underwriting decisions while maintaining service excellence and turnaround standards.
• Collaborate and negotiate with reinsurers, advisors, MGAs, and internal business partners to find optimal underwriting solutions.
• Provide consultation, support, and coaching to underwriting teams as a subject matter expert for advanced and large-case underwriting.
• Share your expertise across various departments and contribute to quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with Sales, Financial and Tax Solutions, and other internal stakeholders to support business development opportunities and large-case underwriting strategies.
• Perform preliminary assessments on complex cases and provide underwriting guidance to facilitate new business acquisition.
• Serve as a resource for challenging underwriting situations and provide recommendations on exceptional cases.
• Deliver presentations and training sessions to internal teams, MGAs, and advisors on underwriting philosophy, emerging trends, and guideline updates.

What Could Help You Succeed in This Role:

• A university degree (Bachelor’s) and/or 10 years of relevant underwriting experience, including a minimum of 5 years handling complex or advanced life and health insurance cases.
• ALU designation (an asset).
• FLMI designation (an asset).
• Advanced proficiency in English, as the incumbent will be required to communicate daily with English-speaking advisors, clients, reinsurers, and business partners across Canada through emails and phone calls.
• Strong knowledge of medical, financial, and non-medical underwriting principles.
• Excellent analytical and decision-making skills.
• The ability to explain and discuss complex underwriting concepts using professional expertise.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.
• A client- and advisor-focused mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong planning, organizational, and multitasking abilities.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us:

• A work environment where learning and development are combined with a shared pursuit of excellence.
• A healthy, safe, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential.
• The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment supported by flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces.
• Competitive benefits, including flexible group insurance plans, a competitive retirement savings plan, employee share purchase plan, vacation and wellness days, personal development opportunities, telemedicine services, employee and family assistance program, ergonomic equipment program, performance bonus, discounts on iA products, and much more.

The typical hiring range for this position is between 80,276 CAD and 140,000 CAD; base salary may vary depending on knowledge, skills, years of experience, and internal equity.

At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.